Don't try this at home.

Last year, the City of London Police released a report to raise awareness about counterfeit beauty products and the risks that can occur when buying them. Purchasing counterfeit makeup isn’t the same as purchasing counterfeit clothing or electronics, these can seriously mess with your skin. While it may be tempting to purchase a Naked palette for under $10, you’re putting your skin at risk of coming in close contact with high levels of cyanide, mercury, urine, and even rat droppings.

However, some people are willing to pay fewer bucks for fake beauty products anyway, and this includes beauty vlogger Kristine Roces AKA RealAsianBeauty. She filmed a tutorial using all fake beauty products purchased from Filipino marketplace, Divisoria. In the video she tries fake versions of MAC’s Matchmaster foundation and Studio Fix powder, Urban Decay’s Naked 3 palette, NYX’s Wonder Stick, a Beauty Blender, Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Liquid Lipstick, and two Urban Decay Naked brow and eyeliners that don’t actually exist.

Kristine concludes that the foundation, powder, and contouring stick changed colors over time and were difficult to apply, so she does not recommend them. The brow liner was too dark for her eyebrows, although she was impressed with the quality of the cream eyeliner. She actually preferred the fake liquid lipstick over the real version because it didn’t smudge and had a real matte finish. Kristine also states that if she had to recommend anything else it’d be the eyeshadow palette, and blending sponge.

The next day Kristine’s skin did not break out or face any irritation. Although Kristine’s experience wasn’t a terrible one, we wouldn’t recommend recreating her experiment. It’s definitely safer to avoid fake makeup at all costs — and support the companies that actually are putting the work and research in to create your favorite beauty products. You can watch her full fake makeup tutorial below, but make sure to click on the “closed captioning” button for subtitles if you don’t speak Filipino.